Attachment for furniture-legs



8. H JEFFEHS.

ATTACHMENT FOR FURNITURE LEGS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 17. 1919.

1 ,3239, 605 Patented Feb. 3, i920.

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BERT H. JEFFERS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ATTACHMENT FOR FURNITURE-LEGS.

Application filed November 17, 1919.

To (AU/107L071! it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERT H. Jnrrnns, acitizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented new and useful Ini- ]')l'0V511lG11tS in Attachments forFurniture- Legs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to guards for furniture legs, and has for itsprinciple to proride such a device having a projecting re silient ring;adapted to contact against a wall, or the like, when. the furniture ismoved, thus to prevent the Inarring of the wall or the furniture.

With the object stated in view, my invent-ion comprises the new anduseful details of construction and arrangen'rent, which will behereinafter fully described, illustrated in the annexed drawing andclaimed.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a plan View of my assembled guard for furniture legs.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of my device applied to the legof a bedstead.

-My guard comprises a split clamp ring 1 adapted to encircle a furnitureleg, said ring being preferably formed from a strip of light strap ironhaving the ends thereof bent outwardly to form ears 2. Arrangedeccentricallv of ring 1 is a split guard ring 8 formed of resilientmaterial and also having outstanding ars -l the guard ring 25 being ofrelatively larger. diameter than the clamp ring 1. The ears :2 and d ofrings 1 and 3 are perforated and a clamp bolt is provided to unite therings together. and clamp the ring 1 about the furniture leg in an shownSpecification of Letters Patent.

Iatented Feb. 3, 1920.

Serial No. 328,473.

obvious manner, the ears 2 seating between the ears 4-.

In applying my device to a furniture lee. it is so positioned that theprojecting resil ient ring 3 is directed. outward from the leg, theeccentric arrangement of the two rings thus allowing the guard ring toprotrude a considerable distance. It will. be readily seen that when thefurniture to which my device is attached is moved toward an obstruction,or when other pieces of furniture are moved toward the leg to which myguard is applied, ring; 3 will contact therewith, and thus prevent themar-ring; of the lens, and said ring will also prevent lnarring of thewall of the room if the bedstead or other piece of furniture is movedclosely thereto.

I claim:

1. A guard for furniture comprising a pair of resilient rings ofdifferent diameters eccentrically positioned one within the other andconnected. the inner ring being adapted to encircle a furniture leg! andhaving" means for attachnlent A guard for fin'niture le sjs comprising asplit clamp ring adapted to encircle a furniti'u'e leg and havingprojecting perforated ears, a resilient guard ring arrangedeccentrically of the clamp ringand having projectingperforated ears,between which the first mentioned ears seat, and a clamp bolt carried bythe perforated ears of said rings for fastening the rings together andsecuring the clamp ring around the furniture leg.

In testimony whereof I ai'iix my signature.

BERT n.

